The Daily Plan-it / Dean of Students Blog, Columbia J-school

Join a discussion with Eliot Kaplan, executive director of talent acquisition for Hearst magazines from 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 9 in the World Room.

Please join us for a special discussion session with Eliot Kaplan, executive director of talent acquisition for Hearst magazines and former National Magazine Award-winning editor-in-chief of Philadelphia magazine and managing editor of GQ.

In a Q&A format, Kaplan will discuss the present and future of the magazine business — in print and online, for writers, editors and executives — based on his decades of experience at Condé Nast, Hearst and Metrocorp (publisher of Philadelphia and Boston magazines). He currently works as the chief editorial talent director for all the Hearst magazines, overseeing all top and mid-level hiring at Esquire, O, the Oprah magazine, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire, Food Network magazine, Redbook, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping and many others.

Kaplan will discuss, and take questions about everything from entry-level job strategies to the future of the magazine business in print and online, in the U.S. and internationally.

The session will be moderated by adjunct professor Stephen Fried, who worked with Kaplan at GQ and Philadelphia (They are also co-founders of the Nora Magid Mentorship Prize at the University of Pennsylvania).

This session of the magazine writing workshop is open to all J-School students and faculty. No RSVP is necessary.

Questions? Email Stephen Fried: stephenfried@comcast.net.

The Declassification Engine is a conference on the Computational Analysis of Official Secrecy.

The Declassification Engine
Friday, May 10 2013
9:00 am to 6 p.m.
Lecture Hall (3rd Floor), School of Journalism (Pulitzer Building)

Historians, journalists, legal scholars, statisticians, and computer scientists are meeting at Columbia University to consider how computational methods can illuminate the broad patterns of official secrecy and accelerate the declassification process.

For more information and registration:
http://www.declassification-engine.org/index.py?section=conference

Conference Organizers:

Michael Collins, Vikram S. Pandit Professor of Computer Science | Matthew Connelly, Professor of International and Global History | David Madigan, Professor and Chair of the Statistics Department

Sponsored by:

The Heyman Center for the Humanities | The Hertog Program on Law and National Security | The Brown Institute for Media Innovation | Columbia University Seminar on Big Data and Digital Scholarship | Department of Computer Science | Department of Statistics

Join Sebastian Junger in discussion with Steve Hindy on War Reporting: Then and Now, Wednesday, May 8 8 p.m. - 10:30 p.m., Brooklyn Brewery, 79 North 11th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11249

Steve Hindy always says that some of the best training he got for starting a brewery in Brooklyn in the 1980s was covering wars in the Middle East as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press.

To kick off our new series, Hindy will interview Sebastian Junger, best-selling author of War and The Perfect Storm and director of Restrepo and Which Way is the Front Line From Here? Hindy and Junger will discuss the drive to head into a war zone armed with nothing but a notepad, the changes in war reporting in recent decades, and the reasons they both decided not to return to the battlefield. Junger will also talk about his latest film and his program RISC, both of which are in memory of his friend Tim Hetherington.

Tickets: $15, available at http://www.togather.com/event/420/sebastianjunger-in-brooklyn.html. Ticket includes admission and a free Brooklyn Brewery beer.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

Questions? Email Lily Hindy: lily.hindy@gmail.com.

Join Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning producer Alex Gibney in a discussion of his latest documentary, “We Steal Secrets” about Wikileaks Wednesday, May 8 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. in the Lecture Hall.

Alex Gibney is the founder of Jigsaw Productions. An Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning producer, he is well known for producing one of the highest grossing documentaries of all time, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.” In addition, Gibney is sought after for his experience in mounting large international productions, particularly multi-part series, such as Martin Scorsese’s Emmy and Grammy Award-winning “The Blues” and David Halberstam’s “The Fifties.”

An accomplished writer and director in his own right, Gibney is the leading creative force behind many of Jigsaw’s productions and is well known for crafting stories that take an unflinching look at the political landscape of America. His work as a writer and director includes the recent hit “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” as well as the 2006 Oscar-nominated “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and the 2008 Oscar-winning “Taxi to the Dark Side.”

While Gibney has produced films through Jigsaw for over 25 years, he also worked briefly as a director of special projects for the Samuel Goldwyn Company. And from 1998 to 2000, Gibney was the Senior Vice President of Offline Entertainment Group, a New York-based production company whose principals included producer Ezra Swerdlow and long-time collaborator, Marc Levin.

Gibney is a regular blogger for the Atlantic, and has also written for Newsweek, The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the New Republic, Wilson Quarterly, Los Angeles Reader, Chicago Reader, and San Francisco Chronicle.

Questions? Email Prof. June Cross: jc1339@columbia.edu.

Please join the Dart Center and the Earth Institute on Monday for a conversation with Amy Wilentz about her new book, “Farewell Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti” from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Columbia Alumni Center’s Schapiro Room, 622 West 113th Street.

For the last quarter-century Amy Wilentz has been an essential chronicler of Haiti’s struggles, crises, and people. In her new book, Wilentz reports on the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, moving between devastated present and tumultuous history, between the daily lives of Haitians and her own relationship to the country.

Questions? Email Bruce Shapiro: bruce.shapiro@dartcenter.org.

We hope you are enjoying the good weather but still keeping an eye on JobNews!

Here are some events we’ve organized that you should not miss:

1) Wednesday, May 8: WORKSHOP: Social Media Tips You Should Know Before You Graduate
What’s new in social media and why you need to pay attention – no matter where you work. Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, chief digital officer, Columbia University, talks to graduating students about social media habits you should be acquiring as well as five new LinkedIn tips and tricks and Facebook’s latest changes and how they affect you. World Room, Noon- 1:30 p.m.

Please note: A film crew will be filming a portion of this event so if you’d prefer not to be filmed, please send me an e-mail at as1698@columbia.edu.

2) Friday, May 10: FREELANCE SERIES: The Freelance Series: Prof. Duy Linh Tu on How to Start A Business
You know he can teach, now hear him tell you how he started a successful media business. He’ll share his challenges, pitfalls, mistakes and successes, and help you ask yourself the hard questions before you launch a journalism/multimedia/documentary production business. Columbia professor of new media journalism and independent film producer, Duy will give you the business nuts-and-bolts, including taxes, whether you need a business plan, whether to incorporate, how to deal with contracts, how to build your business and other challenges that confound most writers and artists who want to start a freelance business. Friday, May 10 from 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. in room 601B.

3) Monday, May 13: MEET THE MEDIA: Nilay Patel
The managing editor for The Verge, Nilay Patel, will talk about the kind of jobs that are available at the site, what it is like to work in this business and the current state of the industry. Room 607B, Noon – 1 p.m.

This week’s Delacorte Lecture Series features BuzzFeed’s Ken Lerer and Jonah Peretti at 7 p.m. in the World Room.

Join Professor Victor Navasky in the final Delacorte Lecture of the semester, featuring BuzzFeed’s Ken Lerer and Jonah Peretti. Required for all magazine concentrators.

BuzzFeed reaches over 40 million monthly unique visitors and gets the majority of its traffic from social sources like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more.

JONAH PERETTI
Jonah Peretti is Founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, the first true social news organization that provides a pioneering mix of breaking news, entertainment and shareable content. Mr. Peretti, known for creating viral hits, tracking online social behavior and building technology to amplify buzz is also a co-founder of The Huffington Post. He has been called a “viral marketing hotdog” by The New York Times, “the poster boy of guerilla media” by AlterNet and a “computer-whiz” by The New Yorker. Fast Company named Mr. Peretti one of the “New Faces of Social Media” and named BuzzFeed as one of the “50 Most Innovative Companies” in 2012. Business Insider listed him as one of the “11 Rising Tech Stars to Watch in 2012.”

Mr. Peretti is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab and has taught at NYU and the Parsons School of Design. His work has been covered by Time, the Economist, Fortune, and Business Insider and he has appeared as a guest on the Today Show, Good Morning America and CNN.

KENNETH LERER
Kenneth Lerer is a Managing Director at Lerer Ventures. He was the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Huffington Post. Mr. Lerer is Chairman of Betaworks and BuzzFeed, and is Vice-Chairman of Bedrocket. He is a member of Pilot Group LLC, a private investment firm.

Mr. Lerer is Chairman Emeritus of the Public Theater in New York City and serves on the boards of directors of several nonprofit organizations, including the Association to Benefit Children (ABC), and the Bank Street College of Education. In 2008-09, Mr. Lerer served as the Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at Columbia Journalism School.

Join Consumer Reports for a panel discussion on mobile technology and to discuss consumer trade-offs in a mobile culture on Wednesday, May 1 from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the lecture hall.

The event will kick-off with the findings from the annual Consumer Reports’ State of the Net report and a keynote address from John Morris the Associate Administrator and Director of Internet Policy at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). A panel of consumer advocates, mobile proponents, and industry experts will explore the upsides/downsides of an increasingly mobile world and weigh the benefits and opportunities of mobile services against the risks they pose to privacy and security.

The event is free but please RSVP: http://consumer-reports-privacy.eventbrite.com

Keynote: John Morris, Associate Administrator and Director of Internet Policy, National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Panelists:

• Julie Ask, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
• Susan Grant, Director of Consumer Protection, Consumer Federation of America
• Mick de Meijer; Mobile Account Director, at MXM Mobile
• Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer, Columbia University, moderator

Contact: Janice Smith, Consumer Reports, jsmith@consumer.org

Reporting compassionately, effectively and thoughtfully on the impact of violence is one of the toughest yet most rewarding jobs facing any journalist. Please join the Dart Center Wednesday, May 1 at 6 p.m. for a conversation and celebration with the best: winners of the 2013 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.

This year’s Dart Awards went to the Los Angeles Times for the powerfully poignant series, “Standing Up: Davien´s Story” and the collaborative team of ProPublica, Fundación MEPI and This American Life for a comprehensive, multi-platform project “Finding Oscar” and “What Happened at Dos Erres.”

We’ll showcase their work at an awards presentation followed by a roundtable discussion — “Bringing it Home” featuring: ProPublica senior reporter Sebastian Rotella; Fundación MEPI director (and J-School alum) Ana Arana; freelance reporter and producer (and J-School alum), Habiba Nosheen; “This American Life” reporter and producer Brian Reed; LA Times reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske; LA Times photographer Barbara Davidson; The New York Times national correspondent and `At War´ blog editor James Dao; The New York Times freelance `At War´ blogger Thomas J. Brennan; York Daily News editor Scott Blanchard and York Daily News photographer, Jason Plotkin.

The Dart Awards are a highlight of the Dart Center’s calendar. I hope you’ll join us in the World Room Wednesday at 6 p.m. to raise a glass, meet the winners, and participate in a rich discussion about high-impact reporting of violence, trauma and tragedy.

This event is free and open to the public, so please forward this invitation to anyone else who might be interested.

In order to help you plan for Graduation and beyond, we have prepared some documents for you — please make sure you read both carefully.

Journalism Day, the Journalism School graduation ceremony and the University graduation are covered in detail on the graduation page: http://bit.ly/JSchool2013

Post-graduation use of the building/equipment and alumni benefits/services are covered at http://bit.ly/CUJ13_YREnd

The final graduation briefings:

Thursday, May 2, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Tuesday, May 7, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m.

SAJA at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism presents Covering Pakistan in the Age of Data: A conversation with Alia Chughtai, New Media at Pakistan’s Dawn Media Group at 3 p.m. in the Stabile Student Center on Friday, April 26.

Alia Chughtai is a designer at heart, but in love with journalism. At Dawn, she is involved in all aspects of design, development, social media and interactive journalism. With Pakistan’s elections just around the corner, Alia and her team have been leading the way the event is covered online. She headed the Creative efforts at Dawn News TV, Pakistan’s first English language news channel, and over saw all brand, on and off screen design, promotions, and advertising.

This week’s Delacorte Lecture features theSkimm.com co-founders, Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. in the World Room.

Danielle Weisberg
Growing up in Chicago, Danielle was exposed to politics at an early age from family dinner table discussions in which she asked questions like, “Why is Bill Clinton in trouble?” Danielle was always the kid with her head in a book, mostly Nancy Drew. In high school, she interned for a few PR firms, which included work for “Oprah,” that got her going on a path of delivering information to people (and of possibly becoming a media mogul). While attending Tufts University, Danielle interned for Boston Magazine and MSNBC, which turned her into a full fledged political junkie. Upon graduating in 2008, Danielle went to work for NBC News in Washington, D.C. where she covered everything from the election and inauguration to TARP hearings and health care reform rallies for “Nightly News” and the “Today” show. In 2010, Danielle moved to New York, where she currently resides, to produce for MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” there she learned way too much about the tax code and spearheaded a campaign
with UNICEF. Danielle loves the Chicago Cubs, anything that happens when Kanye West and Jay-Z get together, fundraising for the K.I.N.D. Fund, and watching really horrible new television shows.

Carly Zakin
Carly became addicted to the “Today” show at age 5 — not their target demo — and fell in love with the news. Always a bookworm and inquisitive, her parents constantly told her she should either be a detective or an investigative reporter because she asked too many questions. She started interning in publishing in high school and knew from day one she wanted to make a living out of storytelling. While studying at the University of Pennsylvania, she began interning for “NBC News.” After graduating in 2008, she began work for CNBC’s primetime development division and went on to produce MSNBC news documentaries both in New York and D.C. From breaking news and writing for the political unit, to personal finance and documentaries on the Kennedy family, and interviewing Tom Brokaw on the Berlin Wall, she has made a career out of sharing stories. She also enjoyed a brief stint producing reality television, where she or may not have had to spend 8 days with a polygamist family. Not a sister-wife, Carly resides in New York and loves being a mentor with “Streetwise Partners,” has an unnatural obsession with John Stamos, bakes a mean soufflé, and secretly watches marathons of “Golden Girls” and “Frasier.”

The Delacorte Lectures, presented each week in the spring semester, examine aspects of magazine journalism by a leader in the field of magazine publishing. The series is headed by Victor Navasky, the George T. Delacorte Professor in Magazine Journalism and director of the Delacorte Center.

Attend an Open Session with Maria Popova, founder of BrainPickings.com from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the World Room.

Please join us for a special session with Maria Popova, the 28-year-old founder of the amazingly influential site BrainPickings.com. The New York Times recently called Popova “the mastermind of one of the faster growing literary empires on the Internet” and Fast Company named her one of the 100 most creative people in business, proclaiming that “her blog and Twitter feed is read by the Who’s Who of the media, marketing, and ad worlds.”

BrainPickings.com is an amazing combination of curation and new journalism on science, art and culture, all part of a perpetual pursuit of what she calls “interestingness.” It also offers a new model of journalistic and critical entrepreneurship. Maria is very outspoken about the future of journalism and culture criticism, as well as curation and source crediting (she is the inventor of the “Curators Code). She runs her empire of interestingness – a blog with 500,000+ visitors a month, a newsletter with over 150,000 subscribers and a Twitter feed with over 325,000 followers – from a little apartment in Brooklyn.

Here’s a link to the recent Times piece about her: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/fashion/maria-popova-has-some-big-ideas.html?pagewanted=all

We will talk about online journalism and curation, alternative career tracks, and whatever else you want to ask Maria – who, I can assure you, is one of the most diverse and provocative characters you’ll ever meet. (When she was my intern as an undergrad at Penn, she was doing journalistic research for me, working at an ad agency, training for professional bodybuilding competitions and still immersed in the politics of her native Bulgaria.)

This session is open to all J-School students and faculty. 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m. in the World Room. No RSVP is necessary.

Save the Date for this public event:

Covering Immigration Reform: a panel discussion moderated by Columbia Journalism Prof. Mirta Ojito

Monday, May 6, 2013, 6 p.m.

As we grapple with immigration reform, journalists nationally and locally must know the meaningful questions to ask about what the new policies mean for the U.S. and the countries that share its borders. A panel of reporters and immigration activists from both sides of the issue will hold a balanced discussion on immigration reform.

6 p.m.-6:30 p.m.: Networking event with snacks and refreshments sponsored by the Sevellon Brown Lecture Series

6:30 p.m.-8 p.m.: Panel discussion

Panelists:

• Erica Pearson, Immigration reporter for the New York Daily News
• Jose Antonio Vargas, Immigration activist and journalist
• Daniel Stein, President, Federation for American Immigration Reform
• Mark Hugo Lopez, Associate Director, Pew Hispanic Center

Sponsored by Columbia Journalism School’s student NAHJ Chapter and the Sevellon Brown Lecture Series.

A few updates from Career Services:

1. If you’re interested alternative weeklies, the annual convention of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies takes place in Miami this June. The organization offers a $500 to $1,000 grant to cover expenses of attending if you qualify for one of three categories. Last year one of our M.A. Politics students got it and attended. From our experience the strongest candidates for this scholarship have reporting and writing internships or fellowships already set up for summer and wish to attend the AAN conference to make contacts and break into alt-weeklies. The annual AAN conferences are major networking opportunities in which you’ll meet editors from across the country. The deadline to apply is May 22. Here’s the link: http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/aan-announces-scholarships-and-grants-for-2013-annual-convention-in-miami/Article?oid=7039919.

2. Tablet magazine is hiring a paid summer editorial intern. Here’s what they say: If you have experience in journalism and are familiar with the landscape of American Jewish life, we’d love to hear from you. Interns will contribute blog posts and full features as well as assist the editorial staff with research and administrative tasks. The summer internship is five days a week, from Memorial Day through Labor Day, at our office in New York City. To apply, please email a resume, cover letter, and three clips to Stephanie Butnick, at sbutnick@tabletmag.com, by May 5. If you met senior writer Leil Leibovitz at the Career Expo, you might want to mention it in your cover letter.

3. The Freelance Series: How to brand yourself and get publications to come to you: Contently, Tues. April 30 from noon - 1:30 p.m. in room TBA.
Shane Snow, a digital media grad from 2010, and co-founder of Contently, will teach you what he knows about creating a brand, establishing a consistent, user-friendly and attractive web footprint. This class is a must for those of you who are thinking about freelancing. Shane will talk about building a freelance career – from breaking through the noise when pitching editors, to managing client invoicing and getting paid. Shane will also review Contently portfolios. There are still slots left if you’d like Shane to review your portfolio. To claim a slot, please email Anusha Shrivastava at as1698@columbia.edu.

Interested in covering issues involving or challenges facing the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities? As reporters we will inevitably be faced with situations in which we will be writing/recording the lives and experiences of people of these identities. Come learn how to relate to these communities as a journalist and as an ally on Wednesday, May 1 at 6 p.m. in the Stabile Student Center. We will deal with the most practical tools for journalists trying to report on LGBT issues and people.

Our presenter, Oriol Gutierrez, is the editor-in-chief of both POZ and Tu Salud magazines. In addition to having reported on LGBT topics for many years, he is also an authority on HIV/AIDS-related issues. Come have your questions answered on these topics and learn how to sensitively and fairly address stories related to these communities.

Reception, sponsored by Sevellon Brown Fund, follows the presentation.

How do we stay true to authentic, in-depth and original storytelling in a 140 character world?

Come exchange ideas with “niche-fillers” across the publishing spectrum who have carved out a new media approach to old school storytelling - and sharing. They’ll talk about how they’ve created space for stories that matter, and then, in the literary salon tradition, we’ll engage in a lively (and perhaps libation-fueled) conversation about how you - writers, journalists, authors, and poets - can find your niche,
too.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Kgb Bar (85 E 4th St, New York, New York 10003)

Featured guests:

Michael Shapiro, Journalist, Columbia Professor & Founder of The Big Roundtable

Rob Spillman, Editor Tin House magazine

Halimah Marcus, Co-Editor of Electric Lit’s Recommended Reading

Noah Rosenberg, Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Narratively

You can find the details on Facebook.

For the first time, the annual Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism at Tufts
University will be broadcast live on the web and available to an audience beyond the Tufts
campus. Chief international correspondent for CNN and global affairs anchor of ABC News Christiane
Amanpour will be the featured speaker, discussing current world issues and changes in how
people receive their news in a live interview with Tufts alum and Co-CEO of Loews
Corporation Jonathan Tisch.

This is the third in a series of live webcasts by Made in Medford, following the appearance of His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet at Medford’s Kurukulla Center and the playing of the 125th annual Medford-Malden High School Thanksgiving Day football game. Made in Medford is dedicated to exploring new and innovative ways that local programming – including public, educational and government media – can be made available in a community. The Made in Medford website, MadeinMedford.com, and video-on-demand component are
designed to connect residents and visitors with what’s going on around Medford and show them where to find additional content and events.

WHEN: Friday, April 26, 2013 at 12 p.m.

WHERE: MadeinMedford.com

OTHER: For more information on the Edward R. Murrow Forum, go to madeinmedford.com/tuftscommunity

Contact: David Lubell, Online Community Coordinator, Made in Medford
617-794-7274 or david@madeinmedford.com

We have several events over the next few days you should try to attend.

1) Meet the Media: Agence France Press – all platforms. Tomorrow, Wednesday. April 24. Session 12:30 p.m. - 1 p.m. (note time change) Room 607B
Multimedia Desk Chief Magan Crane and North American and Video Editor Michelle Hoffman will talk about the AFP operation all over the world across all platforms, their multimedia and video journalism internships in Washington, D.C. and other opportunities.

Students who registered in advance have individual meetings scheduled with these editors. Contact Career Services Program Administrator Jacqueline DeLaFuente with questions about the interview schedule. jmd2221@columbia.edu.

2) The Freelance Series: How to brand yourself and get publications to come to you: Contently, Tues. April 30 from noon - 1:30 p.m. in room TBA
Shane Snow, a digital media grad from 2010, and co-founder of Contently, will teach you what he knows about creating a brand, establishing a consistent, user-friendly and attractive web footprint. This class is a must for those of you who are thinking about freelancing. Shane will talk about building a freelance career – from breaking through the noise when pitching editors, to managing client invoicing and getting paid. Contently connects freelance journalists with over 50 publishers including Elle and American Express Publishing. This talk is part of our annual spring series on the life, business and art of freelancing. If you would like to have your Contently portfolio reviewed, please send an e-mail to Anusha Shrivastava at as1698@columbia.edu.

3) The Freelance Series: An editor’s point of view. The Villlage Voice, Wed. May 1 from noon - 1:30 p.m.. in room 607B.
Will Bourne, editor of The Villlage Voice, will talk to students about how to pitch an editor. Bourne has been the editor of The Village Voice since November 2012. He was previously an editor at large for Inc. magazine, executive editor at Fast Company, and senior editor at Fortune. He was also a freelance writer for 17 years at national magazines including Esquire, Harper’s, Men’s Journal, The New York Times and others.

4) Save-the-date: May 8. Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, chief digital officer of Columbia University. Social Media Stuff You Should Know Before You Graduate: What’s new in social media and why you need to pay attention – no matter where you end up working. Topics include:

* Five new LinkedIn tips and tricks

* Facebook’s latest changes and how they affect you (you can’t miss this

part!)

* New social-media habits you should be getting

* Things you can start doing right away at a new job

* Beyond job-hunting: Career management via social media

Students — Schedule appointments with AFP and check out these new opportunities. Please check JobNews — new positions posted daily.

Columbia J-school/DuPont Awards
Inside Scoop: This six-month position could be an excellent opportunity for an ongoing part time student, or 2013 graduate who needs a six-month position as a cushion with benefits while launching a freelance career….

The School’s prestigious duPont Awards is looking for a Temporary Program Administrator starting June 3 through the end of November 2013. Job responsibilities include assisting the director in all aspects of the award; helping the reporters, filmmakers and producers enter for an award through a new online system, tracking the screening/judging process, helping screeners and judges access material for the awards, helping organize day-long meetings with judges, panel discussions, screenings and other administrative tasks including processing payments and answering the phone. Responsible, detail-oriented person with strong communication skills and a deep interest and appreciation for visual storytelling preferred. Some professional experience with broadcast journalism, documentary or digital reporting preferred.

*Candidate must commit to working the full six months. Regular hours except for a few evening events and weekends. Benefits included. www.dupontawards.org. DEADLINE TO APPLY: Friday, April 26. Please send resumes, references, and short cover letter to: Abi Wright: awright@columbia.edu. Subject heading in Email: PROGRAM ADMIN JOB

MEET THE MEDIA: Agence France Press, Wednesday April 24, Noon-1 p.m., Room 607B
***Session followed by scheduled appointments.
Multimedia Desk Chief Magan Crane and North American and Video Editor Michelle Hoffman will be here to talk about the AFP operation across all platforms and also interview candidates for their multimedia and video journalism internships in Washington, D.C. All details are on JobNews for these positions — apply immediately if interested. Following their talk, both Magan and Michelle will interview candidates for their respective internship positions and will also discuss other opportunities at AFP including freelance gigs domestically and internationally. *** If you are interested in being interviewed for the internships or meeting with them to discuss other opportunities on Wednesday, please send an email to Career Services Program Coordinator Jacqueline DeLaFuente by Tuesday at noon: jmd2221@columbia.edu.

The Huffington Post
Huffington Post has just launched a new post graduate paid four-month fellowship program. Details on JobNews. Rolling deadline but apply now. Inside Scoop: The new program will include more formal training, and the ultimate hope is to convert people full time after the four-month time frame. The Huffington Post is “looking for people who are incredibly webby — obsessed with the Internet and sites like Gawker, reddit, Buzzfeed, etc. They are looking at candidates who want to be editors — not reporters, folks who are interested in aggregating content and writing content and headlines on deadline, (8-10 pieces a day) and driving social media conversation. Pay is $10/hour. International students will be considered.

Join Jonathan Katz, author of ‘The Big Truck That Went By,’ about post-earthquake relief efforts in Haiti for a talk on Tuesday, April 23 from 5 p.m.-6 p.m. in the Stabile Student Center.

Jonathan M. Katz is a former Associated Press correspondent and editor. The only full-time American news correspondent stationed in Haiti during the January 2010 earthquake, he stayed on to cover the aftermath and flawed recovery that followed. That fall, he broke the story that U.N. peacekeepers were the likely cause of a post-quake cholera epidemic that killed thousands of people. Katz was awarded the 2010 Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism and the 2012 J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award for ‘The Big Truck That Went By.’ Other recognition has included a National Headliners Award and finalist recognition by the Livingston Award and Michael Kelly Award for the “fearless pursuit and expression of truth.” In seven years with AP, Katz also reported from Washington, D.C., Mexico City, Santo Domingo, New York, Jerusalem, the United Nations, and elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter, @KatzOnEarth.

Brian Stelter talks to Jonathan Wald about Top of the Morning, Stelter’s new book at Columbia Journalism School on from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, April 29.

The mornings are some of the most popular and lucrative hours of the television day, and the topic of a new book by Brian Stelter, a media reporter at The New York Times. How did “Good Morning America” overtake “Today” after 16 years in second place? How do the shows – and a dozen other smaller ones – balance journalism and entertainment? Do they have a future in a world dominated by phones and tablets? Stelter tackles these issues with Jonathan Wald, a former executive producer of “Today” and an adjunct faculty member at Columbia.

See the twtvite: #MUSTATTEND @BrianStelter in conversation w/ @JonathanWald.

GSAPP is hosting Search: Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 22 in Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall at Columbia University GSAPP.

Laura Kurgan, Columbia University GSAPP Trevor Paglen, artist Laura Kurgan Director, Spatial Information Design Lab (SIDL) is joined by artist and geographer Trevor Paglen to discuss Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics, Kurgan’s multifaceted explorations of data-driven maps and satellite imagery as arguments, active interpretations, and propositions. Touching on human rights, surveillance, and social justice, Kurgan’s projects include You Are Here, a performative détournement of the Global Positing System, Monochrome Landscapes, a series of aerial views of vulnerable and contested landscapes that recall the work of Ellsworth Kelly, as well as SIDL’s noted Million Dollar Blocks, a block-by-block study of the human and financial costs of incarceration in the U.S. today. “Identify an area,” Kurgan suggests. “Zoom in and examine the specific conditions. Zoom out and then consider both scales at the same time. The resulting image is no longer hard data. It is a soft map that is infinitely scalable, absolutely contingent, open to vision and hence revision.”

Copies of Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics will be available for purchase by Book Culture. Free and open to the public. #wood042213

Please join us “A vision of the future: what will it look like?” on Tuesday, April 30 in the Lecture Hall.

Ask your questions of Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google and Jared Cohen, director, Google Ideas, co-authors of The New Digital Age.

With incoming Journalism School Dean Steve Coll.

Tuesday, April 30
4 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Lecture Hall

Food and drinks to follow.

Registration is required, and seating will be limited. Click here to RSVP.

Please note that space is limited and seats cannot be held after 3:45 p.m.

This week’s Delacorte Lecture features Keija Minor, Editor-in-Chief, Brides and Brides.com
from 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. in the World Room.

Keija Minor is Editor-in-Chief of Brides and Brides.com and responsible for the development and oversight of all editorial initiatives and Brides-branded licensing deals. Keija was Editor-in-Chief of Uptown Magazine prior to joining Brides. She had previously been Editor-in-Chief of Gotham Magazine following her role as managing editor of Los Angeles Confidential and Aspen Peak. Keija practiced corporate law before making a career transition to publishing.

The Delacorte Lectures, presented each week in the spring semester, examine aspects of magazine journalism by a leader in the field of magazine publishing. The series is headed by Victor Navasky, the George T. Delacorte Professor in Magazine Journalism and director of the Delacorte Center.

We hope your job search is going well. Here are a few events and pointers that may help you:

1) Meet the Media: PolicyMic
When: April 17, Noon – 1 p.m.
Venue: 607B
Caira Connor, community manager, will talk about PolicyMic, a news and politics website geared toward millennials. It is “the fastest growing news and discussion platform with over 5 million monthly unique visitors” according to the Institute of Politics at Harvard. Conner will also discuss paid freelance and internship opportunities.

2) Meet the Media: Agence France Press
When: April 24, Noon – 1 p.m.
Venue: 607B
Magan Crane and Michelle Hoffman will be here to talk about the AFP operation across all platforms and also interview candidates for their multimedia and video journalism internships in Washington. All details are on JobNews for these positions – apply immediately, well in advance of their visit. Following their visit, both Magan and Michelle will interview candidates for their respective internship positions. They will also discuss other opportunities at AFP, including freelance gigs.

If you are interested in being interviewed for the internships on April 24, please send an email to Jacqueline DeLaFunte at jmd2221@columbia.edu by 10 a.m. on April 22.

Magan Crane is currently the Multimedia Desk Chief at Agence France-Presse in Washington. The multimedia team, along with desks in London and Hong Kong, links together the best of AFP content, including text, photos, videos and graphics for Internet clients. In addition, their team uses AFPTV production to create videos for the web. They also edit stories for mobile phones, public screens, tablet applications and manage AFP’s official social media accounts. Before moving to the multimedia service, Magan worked for several years as Duty Editor on the English Desk, working with senior editors to coordinate coverage of North and South America for an international audience. At AFP she has worked on a range of high profile stories from four U.S. presidential elections to the September 11 attacks to the death of Michael Jackson and a handful of Latin American coups. Prior to coming to AFP she was a newspaper reporter in Annapolis, Md. She is a 1998 graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and earned a B.A. from the University of Oregon in 1994.

Michelle Hoffman is the North American editor of AFPTV based in Washington, D.C., a text reporter who is now immersed in video. She has spent the last nine years with AFP, split equally between print and video and served as the U.K. correspondent. Michelle has also written for The Economist, Newsweek and other magazines.

3) Marilyn Laurie Scholarship Fund Deadline:
The deadline for the Marilyn Laurie Scholarship fund has been extended to May 1. This scholarship is for students who accept low-paid post-graduate internships or fellowships and have a high level of student debt. For details on how to apply, go to JobNews.

4) Research position at the Columbia Global Center in Mumbai:
Research Assistant/Associate, Columbia Global Centers, South Asia, based in Mumbai, India. Apply at JobNews.

This research position is for a Columbia Journalism School Graduate who would work on issues and research questions relating to a global free press, largely emanating from President Lee Bollinger’s 2010 book entitled “Uninhibited, Robust and Wide Open - A Free Press for a Global Society.” This position is envisaged to be a multi-year appointment, with the first six months on probation and on successful completion, extended on an yearly basis.

Qualifications: M.A/M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and 2-3 years of work experience.

5) Architectural Record Summer Editorial Internship
Architectural Record magazine is looking for a full-time, paid summer editorial intern. (The internship is open to recent graduates including international students on OPT). Most of the duties are administrative, including obtaining photography, maintaining databases, helping put together presentations and awards submissions, doing research and helping editors with any projects as they arise. This is not a writing internship, although opportunities to write exist. Strong written and spoken communication skills are required, as are good organizational and multi-tasking skills. An interest in/knowledge of architecture and/or design is a plus. This is a great opportunity to work closely with an experienced editorial team for a magazine with a 100+ year history. To apply: Please send a brief cover letter, resume, and clips to: Beth Broome (Managing Editor) at elisabeth_broome@mcgraw-hill.com.

DEADLINE: Apply immediately.

J-schoolers may contact Laura Raskin, News Editor (J-2010 M.A. Arts and Culture) for insight on the internship and copy her with your materials. laura.raskin@gmail.com.

Independent publisher Melville House and interactive platform Shindig are hosting a weekly series on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. ET with prize-winning investigative reporter, Edward Jay Epstein. The series begins Tuesday, April 16, with a discussion of the Lincoln Assassination kicking off a six-part series where Epstein will discuss unsolved crimes, each discussion highlighting topics of his recent book, The Annals of Unsolved Crime. Discussion topics include The Lincoln Assassination, The Mysteries of the Vatican, The Amanda Knox Ordeal, The Case of the Radioactive Corpse, Bringing Down DSK, and The Lindbergh Kidnapping.

The events are free and open to the public on Shindig.com. Anyone can participate online and the audience will be able to ask Epstein questions about the conspiracies through text and video chat. The full schedule and RSVP links are online at: http://www.mhpbooks.com/unsolvedcrime.

The Earth Institute is sponsoring”A Conversation of America’s Future” with Joe Scarborough and Jeffrey D. Sachs on Friday, April 19 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Miller Theater at Columbia University.

Former Congressman Joe Scarborough (R-Fla.) is the host of MSNBC´s Morning Joe, the show Time Magazine calls “revolutionary” and The New York Times ranked as the top news program of 2008. In April 2011, Scarborough was named to the prestigious “Time 100″ list of the world´s most influential people.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Devel­opment, and Professor of Health Policy and Manage­ment at Columbia University. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

This event will be LIVE webcast.

For more information and to register visit: www.earth.columbia.edu/webcast

Join Career Services for MEET THE MEDIA with Bob Hofler, LA based Senior editor at Variety.

Bob will discuss Variety, covering the entertainment industry and breaking into the field. Hofler is recruiting freelancers to cover events in New York for Variety´s Vpage which covers parties, premieres, red carpets and fundraisers for this entertainment publication. The paper pays $50 for short write-ups (100 to 500 words) on these events and reporters get bylines. To see examples of these items, go to Variety.com, click on SCENE and go to VPAGE. Variety is also looking for young people in New York City to keep the newspaper updated on trends and news items on the cultural scene as well as candidates for a six month internship starting in July. Holfer has been a senior editor at Variety in Los Angeles since 2005. He was previously the newspaper´s theater reporter in New York City for five years. Before that, he was the managing editor of Buzz magazine, executive editor of Us magazine, and entertainment editor of Life magazine. His books include “The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson,” “Party Animals” and “Variety´s `The Movie That Changed My Life´.” Hofler will also talk generally about covering arts and entertainment, breaking into the business and publishing your book ideas. Please bring your resume and any short clips that show your ability to weave narrative and quotes. If you are interested in signing up for an interview with Hofler, please let Elena Cabral know at ecabral@columbia.edu and these will be scheduled from about 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. after Hofler´s group talk.

Columbia Journalism School Office of Alumni & Development is pleased to invite you to an evening with Rene Auberjonois and Tom Wolfe on Monday, April 29, 2013 in the Lecture Hall.

7 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
BIG BAD WOLFE! The Electric Kool-Aid Kandy-Kolored Right Stuff Man in the Ice-Cream Suit!
Wolfe´s words are performed by Rene Auberjonois, the esteemed Tony-winning actor whose career has spanned film, television, Broadway and regional stages, as well as many audio recordings and broadcasts. Audiences best know him from his years on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Boston Legal; and innumerable film and television appearances.

7:45 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
Tom Wolfe, journalist and author interviewed by Professor Richard Wald

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; all audience members must be seated by 6:55 p.m.

Registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis at this link:
https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/COU/event/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=150571